Talk:Professional practice of behavior analysis

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[edit] Two articles on the same subject?

This article appears to be a near-duplicate of Applied behavior analysis. Why have two articles on the same subject? Let's have just one. Eubulides (talk) 01:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Not a duplicate, be a removal of the practice issues from that site, which allow that site to focus more on defining research issues and less on practice issues. Please see the discussion section for that site- J.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.212.130 (talk) 02:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

the use of ABA to refer to treatment is often a misnomer -- Wikipedia will benefit from being one of the few accurate sources in this regard, I think. It will also allow the report of behavior analytic interventions that may not adhere to the 7 guidelines, but are definitely behavioral. Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by 'hot areas'? Is that sourced somewhere? Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 23:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Areas in vogue...J.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcautilli2003 (talk • contribs) 01:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please read

The WP:MOS cleanup begins to weary. Please read WP:MSH and try to keep section headings brief, and the TOC clean. A new section heading isn't needed every three sentences, and section headings should respect Wiki's capitalization norms, be brief, and not repeat words in the title or previous section headings. Also read WP:MOSBOLD, WP:ITALICS and WP:FN. Examples, when the article title includes the words behavior analysis, this section repeats words unnecessarily: Defining the practice of behavior analysis. The next two sections use incorrect capitalization and the two title are repeats: Service delivery models, Summary of Service Delivery. We don't use the word "current" in Wiki, since it's vague and becomes dates, and it certainly doesn't belong in section headings (see WP:MOSNUM#Precise language). Rather than "Current areas of application in organizations", the heading could be "Application in organizations". External jumps do not belong in the text (The Behavior Analysis Certification Board BACB defines behavior analysis as: ... and Analysis International's position that those receiving treatment have a right to effective treatment ABA:I and a right to effective education. ABA:I. ) please read WP:EL and WP:NOT, external links belong in the External links section, and Wiki is not a blog or a webpage or a collection of links, it's an encyclopedia. Please read WP:MOSNUM regarding how to handle numbers and percentages; I've fixed those repeatedly in these series of articles. Please read WP:DASH regarding the difference between hyphens and dashes ( ... the 1960-1980s but have ... and also in lists, such as ... Consultation- an indirect ... these should be endashes, not hyphens, and there should be consistency in list formatting.) Please use correct and consistent footnote punctuation ( ... rehabilation after injury.[29].[30]), ref after the punctuation. Besides an outrageous section heading, this entire section violates WP:NOT and needs to go: Other areas of applied behavior analytic research for building case conceptualization and technique development (it's a indisriminate list of links). I've taken the time to type all of this up becaue I've had to do and re-do and re-do these same kinds of corrections over and over in this series of articles. It would be helpful if the regular editors would read up on Wikipedia guidelines. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry -- myself and friends will work on getting this MOS down pat so we get things right -- we have so much to contribute, we sometimes just shoot all the content out there and then edit for formatting/style later! Probably a silly sequence -- oops! Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 23:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that these issues are spreading across many articles, so it may be worth taking the time to learn Wiki guidelines before diving into new articles. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC)